November 1, 1999 | Travel FeatureBy Car Through RajasthanIndia is everything the cognoscenti told us. It is a turbulence of color, an astonishment of monumental hand-hewn caves and ancient temples, a buzzing hive of one billion people
-- friendly, proud, clever, curious, ambitious, devout, often heartbreakingly poor…

March 1, 1999 | Travel FeatureEating on the Tuscan SeashoreWhen savvy locals settle in for lunch or dinner in Viareggio, Camiore or Forti dei Marmi they have a choice of shrimp by any other name (gamberoni, gamberetti, scampi, prawnlike maszzancole), and a caboodle of clams (vongole, tartuffi. wiggly razor clams and arselle, no bigger than the tip of your pinky.

October 19, 1998 | Travel FeatureVenice off the menuIn the off-season, Venice still has everything the savvy sybarite will ever need -- except the crowds.